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  • Not Good


    Coyote BlogAuthority Authority: 628
    From CBS News , Via Matt Welch : In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the ...
    17 hours ago
  • Life, Liberty, and…Health Care?


    The UndercurrentAuthority Authority: 106
    Countless voices are claiming medical care is a right. Is it?Throughout the health care debate, Republicans and Democrats have argued over many points, such as which kinds of reforms would most effectively give all Americans access to health care and how much we should be willing to spend on such programs. Very few, ...
    1 day ago
  • Our Foreign Policy Seems to Consist Solely of Figuring Our Ways to Hand People Over to Tyrants


    The Sundries ShackAuthority Authority: 526
    When this man is executed, it will be, in part, our fault.Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described “Muslim Zionist,” traveled to the U.S. to address audiences... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
    1 day ago
  • Charity – Not In My Backyard!


    Coyote BlogAuthority Authority: 628
    Via a reader, from the AZ Republic: A Phoenix ordinance banning charity dining halls in residential neighborhoods withstood a challenge by a north-central Phoenix church. Retired Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Corcoran, serving as a hearing officer, ruled Monday that feeding the homeless at a place of ...
    1 day ago
  • Human Ingenuity: The Real Renewable Resource


    Titanic Deck ChairsAuthority Authority: 118
    A recent advertising campaign by the natural gas industry lobby , Americas Natural Gas Alliance , states (paraphrasing), "we have a 100 year supply of natural gas and its growing all the time," and that "we cant revitalize our economy by buying overseas oil," and that "natural gas is twice as clean as coal," and ...
    2 days ago
  • What An Astounding Waste


    Coyote BlogAuthority Authority: 628
    Via Cato: The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds , a monument to the power of eminent domain. But now Pfizer, the drug company whose neighboring research facility had been the original cause ...
    2 days ago
  • Pfizer Abandons Site Condemned In Infamous Kelo v. New London Case


    The Liberty PapersAuthority Authority: 531
    In the annals of Supreme Court history, there are perhaps only a handful of cases that go down in history as more egregious than what happened in Suzette Kelo v. City of New London. In that case, the Supreme Court approved an eminent domain taking by the City of New London, Connecticut that involved taking the ...
    2 days ago
  • Twenty Years Ago Today


    The Liberty PapersAuthority Authority: 531
    The people of Germany are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the end of the division of their nation: With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country’s ...
    2 days ago
  • The Negation of Freedom


    Titanic Deck ChairsAuthority Authority: 118
    We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is ...
    2 days ago
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall - Twenty Years Later


    One RealityAuthority Authority: 112
    To commemorate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 Nov 1989, here is an interview with Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate.
    3 days ago
  • ACTION ALERT: Put The Stake in Obamacare


    The Liberty PapersAuthority Authority: 531
    Well the good news is that the Democrats are saying they don’t have the votes . Probably one of the reasons why they don’t have the votes is because people are finding all about what’s in HR 3962 . They’re objecting to: Higher taxes on individuals and businesses which will drive up unemployment ...
    5 days ago
  • The Best Option For The Public


    Principles in PracticeAuthority Authority: 410
    In the November 4, 2009 Boston Globe , Jeff Jacoby outlines the best option for the public. (Hint -- its not the "public option".) From his article, " An option for public: less government, more choice ": A government-run health insurer would radically tilt the health-insurance playing field. It would ...
    5 days ago
  • Reflecting, My Way


    A Feather AdriftAuthority Authority: 125
    Newt I’m tempted to just giggle sometimes, when I watch and listen, read and imbibe the various machinations of the Rethugs and their attempts to paint the town Red. We’ve expressed on many occasions the fact that they are killing their own with abandon, unable to resist the temptation to force everyone on the ...
    6 days ago
  • Praying Wont Make It So


    Principles in PracticeAuthority Authority: 410
    Im a second-year student in the Objectivist Academic Center, and the class is currently working through the difference between the metaphysically given (such as the law of gravity) and the man-made (such as traffic laws). The man-made is the result of choice, and as such is subject to praise or criticism. ...
    6 days ago
  • Called for Jury Duty


    Free LibertarianAuthority Authority: 114
    I showed up for jury duty today. I recieved my summons to appear at the Downtown Phoenix City Courthouse a few months ago. The last time I was called was in 2005 in which I would have served in the West Mesa Justice Court. In 2005, the court date was on a Friday but the parties involved agreed to post pone the ...
    1 week ago
  • Italian Rendition Trial


    Coyote BlogAuthority Authority: 628
    Kevin Drum makes a good point about the Italian rendition trials.  While it is good to see some pushback on the horrible practice of kidnapping people and dumping them in countries that have no qualms about torture (sort of an outsourcing of ethics), the Italians stopped well short of showing any real backbone: ...
    1 week ago
  • Big Government Goes Viral


    StupidicaAuthority Authority: 162
    Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. - Thomas Jefferson Background Back in the late 1700’s when our independence from Britain was declared, the colonies had some idea of what they ...
    1 week ago
  • Charity in a Free Society


    Titanic Deck ChairsAuthority Authority: 118
    From an uncharacteristically consistent, fundamentally pro-individual rights standpoint, two authors discuss charity at the American Thinker . (I say uncharacteristically because the publication often succumbs to the classic conservative problem of ceding the premises of the left and then bickering about where the ...
    1 week ago
  • The Enduring Legacy Of Ayn Rand


    The Liberty PapersAuthority Authority: 531
    Part One in Reason.tv’s new series about Ayn Rand: Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1958, Rand became a full-blown cultural phenomenon, selling millions of books and ...
    1 week ago
  • Debate: Is Government Intervention in the Free Market Moral?


    Principles in PracticeAuthority Authority: 410
    This Wednesday, November 4, I will debate UNC Adjunct Professor of Economics Ralph Byrns on the question: "Is Government Intervention in the Free Market Moral?" When: Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 PM Where: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Murphey 116 Website:  ...
    1 week ago

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